The Living History and Surprising Diversity of Computer-Generated TextSelections from “Output,” an anthology showcasing seven decades of English-language machine-generated texts, long predating ChatGPT.
I Test Wearable Tech for a Living. These Are My Favorite Products of 2024From sleep earbuds to smart rings, here are the wearables I didn’t want to take off after completing my product review.
YouTube Is Cracking Down on ClickbaitThe platform will begin removing clickbait in India before rolling out the change to more countries in the ‘coming months.’
What to Know About the Real Y2K Problem Before You Watch ‘Y2K’The Year 2000 computer problem continues to nag at us 25 years later.
China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side HustleChina has long been a billion-plus-person experiment in total state surveillance, with virtually no legal checks on the government's ability to physically and digitally monitor its citizens.
Make America the Great Depression Again: Trump’s plan to kill the FDICDonald Trump has officially revealed when America was last “great”: the 1930s. Back in that golden era, there was no polio vaccine. The United States instigated a series of debilitating, beggar-thy-neighbor global trade wars.
4 Signs That You ‘Know Too Much’ About Your Partner—By A PsychologistMost of us seek to understand our partners on a deep level—their thoughts, dreams, fears and vulnerabilities. This desire is rooted in a fundamental human need for connection and security within relationships.
My 500-Mile Journey Across Alaska’s Thawing ArcticFlames were leaping out of the forest beneath the float plane taking us deep into the remote interior of northern Alaska. Our destination was the glacial Walker Lake, which stretches 14 miles through Gates of the Arctic National Park.
Former ByteDance Intern Accused of Sabotage Among Winners of Prestigious AI AwardA former ByteDance intern who was allegedly dismissed for professional misconduct, including sabotaging colleagues’ work, was announced as a winner of one of the most prestigious annual awards for AI research this week.
Alleged CEO Shooter Luigi Mangione Was Radicalized by PainI’ve spent much of the last ten years reading manifestos and being a fly on the wall in different little online boltholes where extremists plan and seek to incite mass shootings.
Extraterrestrial life may look nothing like life on Earth − so astrobiologists are coming up with a framework to study how complex systems evolveWe have only one example of biology forming in the universe – life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do you look for alien life when you don’t know what alien life might look like?
The Government Shutdown: What Travelers Need to KnowA government shutdown could snarl plans for tens of millions of Americans traveling for the December holidays if Congress fails on Friday to pass legislation to keep the government functioning. Nonessential federal operations would cease at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday.
A New Phone Scanner That Detects Spyware Has Already Found 7 Pegasus InfectionsIn recent years, commercial spyware has been deployed by more actors against a wider range of victims, but the prevailing narrative has still been that the malware is used in targeted attacks against an extremely small number of people.
The Battle Over What It Means to Be “Just a Girl” Online“I would love to be a stay-at-home mom. I would love to be a homemaker and a wife.